Re: Accessing NAND from NetBSD on GuruPlug

[Adam Hoka <adam.hoka%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 2/2/2014 11:34 PM, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> On 2/2/14, 6:33 AM, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > I have two GuruPlugs, which work fine again now in -current.
> >
> > One of them has a serial console, eSATA disk and microSD - the latter
> > is what I boot from. Replacing the kernels is very easy: mount SD card,
> > put netbsd.ub there, reboot.
> >
> > The other machine has nothing, not even the serial console. This makes
> > updating the kernel quite inconvenient (no console, can't do it from
> > uboot).
> >
> > When the system boots I notice two unconfigured devices, one seems to be
> > the wlan (would be nice to have), the other is:
> >
> > vendor 0x11ab product 0x6281 (miscellaneous memory, revision 0x03) at 
> > pci0 dev 0 function 0 not configured
> >
> > which translates to:
> >
> > product MARVELL 88F6281         0x6281  88F6281 SoC Kirkwood
> >
> > Is this the NAND memory on board?
> > Any pointers to docs or drivers one could start from?
> >
> > It would be really nice to have access to the u-boot environment 
> > settings and
> > be able to write a new .ub image to nand from inside NetBSD.
> >
> > Martin
>
> I composed a private reply to Martin, but then I thought I should make 
> this more public.  :)
>
> I did some work on a NAND driver for the Sheevaplug a couple of years 
> ago, but never got it finished.  If anyone is interested in picking it 
> up, the diffs (against -current from January 2013) are here:
>
> http://www.tastylime.net/netbsd/mvsocnand.diff

I would be cool to have.  :-)